Protect and Sack

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Protect

Protect verb - To drive danger or attack away from.
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Sack is an antonym for protect.
Nearby Words: protection, protected, protector, protective, protecting

Sack

Sack verb - To let go from office, service, or employment.
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Protect is an antonym for sack in topics: raid, remove from position of responsibility.
Nearby Words: sacked, sacking, sackful
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Common collocations

peace protect peace sack peace
group protect group sack group
village protect village sack village
country protect country sack country
Other words: town, city.

Both words in one sentence

  • Useful Notes / American Football If they're trying to protect the quarterback, it's the D-Line's job to get past them and, if possible, sack the quarterback.
    Source: Useful Notes / American Football
  • Lonely at the Top Later, he had to sack his original workforce to protect his recipes from being stolen and copied by rivals, and while he did find substitute workers in the Oompa-Loompas, it's clear he sees them only as employees rather than friends.
    Source: Lonely at the Top
  • A simpler version of the tragic type: Rigoletto, in which Rigoletto discovers too late that the body in the sack isn't the Duke he hired an assassin to kill to protect his daughter... but his daughter herself, having decided on the Heroic Sacrifice approach to love.
    Source: Death Faked for You
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